The Israeli army has said it hit about 4,500 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria over the past five months, killing 300 of the group’s fighters and wounding more than 750, AFP reports.

The targets were hit from the air and the ground, the army said in a statement, and included “weapons storage facilities, military structures intended for Hezbollah’s offensive activity and operational command and control centres”.

Five senior commanders were among those killed, and dozens of “terrorist cells” that directed or fired anti-tank missiles and rockets at Israel were struck, the military said.

The strikes were in response to the Iran-backed Hezbollah’s “attacks against civilians and communities in northern Israel”, it said.